Six weeks have flown by since my last check-in with you all, and the gears behind the scenes haven't stopped turning. Today, I'm here to share a few updates that I've been brewing up:
New DB for MiSTer SAM (Super Attract Mode)
I've been collaborating with Mr Christer on creating a newer & much improved Downloader DB for his 2023-06-11 16:44:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hey everyone!
I know it's been a while since my last update, but I've been working diligently behind the scenes to make your MiSTer FPGA experience even better. I have some exciting news to share with you:
I've just published version 1.7 of the Downloader, which comes with some fantastic new features and improvements. Here's a summary of the most significant changes:
One year ago, I started my Patreon page after 2 years of contributing to the MiSTer ecosystem. I wasn't sure where this was going to go, but 12 months and 15 posts later, here we are, still on it.
I'm happy to say that this experience has been very positive for me, and I think it has also been even more favorable for the tools I create and maintain. Just to throw some numbers, with all options on, Update All is now 4x faster than it was in the past despite insta...
2022-12-07 17:03:07 +0000 UTC View Post
One week after the release of Update All 2.0 we now have an upgrade on its brain. Downloader 1.6 is a substantial change, that will make our updating process quite a bit quicker (also when using Update All).
But first some history. On September 2021, MiSTer OS was upgraded to include a new Python version with new standard libraries (among other things). This had serious implications for the too...
2022-10-27 16:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Today, after more than two years of its initial release, I'm very happy to announce the second major release of Update All.
This started being a very small tool that became increasingly bigger with the inception and evolution of the Settings Screen and the integration of the MiSTer Downloader. It reache...
2022-10-21 13:49:59 +0000 UTC View Post
As some of you already know, Downloader works similarly to a package manager within the MiSTer ecosystem.
There is a big distribution hosted at distribution_mister containing most of the files of the MiSTer-devel organization, but there are also other databases hosted in other places. For example, another big one is 2022-08-19 22:59:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Bios Database Release
After 6 months of experimental usage, the Bios DB is finally ready for prime time. This Database will offer a more reliable user experience than the old BIOS Getter because it executes under Downloader.
The repository for this project is: https://github.com/theypsilon/BiosDB_MiSTer
But you can use it through Upd...
2022-06-24 16:15:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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This was the biggest release to this date in terms of changes in the code, so releasing it makes me feel quite relieved.
The CHANGELOG for this release is nothing to be shy of, but the real star of this release is a new feature called "Storage Priority Resolution".
This new feature allows Downloader...
2022-05-06 17:37:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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Since the release of Downloader 1.4, I've been delivering small updates with refinements, optimizations, fixes, and some preparations for what is to come.
This is how I work on this project. Announced releases are really more like milestones, characterized by some new important features, but in reality, smaller releases are being delivered every couple of days to all the users. In total, since Downloader 1.4, I've delivered around 20 new minor rel...
2022-02-18 18:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post
After a month of testing two different beta versions of this release (preview and RC), the new version of the MiSTer Downloader has been finally published. It should be already up and running for users of Update All, and for the use...
2022-01-21 17:10:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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The "Custom Download Filters" feature for the Downloader has been a considerable amount of work since I picked it up in late November and finally is almost done. After all this development, I'm happy to announce that a Public Release Candidate is now available for everybody to test. Just go to the Misc Menu from Update All and activate it there (if you had activated it in the Patrons Menu, you don't need to che...
2022-01-07 15:02:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm happy to announce my first major release of the year: the Arcade ROMs Database. Already available in the Patrons Menu from Update All.
Similarly, as the BIOS Database, this database replaces the functionality of the MAME and HBMAME Getter scripts. As I commented a few times, databases perform faster than the Getter scripts, and offe...
2022-01-03 16:48:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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Finally, the first version of the "Configurable Custom Download Filters" feature is out!
With this, you can opt out from installing any core or file that you are not interested in. It will also remove them if they are already installed.
The feature is fully functional, very well tested, and already available directly from the Patrons Menu 2021-12-17 17:20:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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As you can see in the pic above, the good ol' Settings Screen from Update All receives a new menu for patrons only. This is meant to ease the distribution of the exclusive content that I'll be publishing.
To access the menu, you need to get the 'update_all.patreonkey' file attached to this post and place it inside the folder '/media/fat/Scrip...
2021-12-10 16:03:40 +0000 UTC View Post(ESPAÑOL ABAJO)
Yesterday Jotego decided to change the way he distributes his cores. Until then, he had a JTSTABLE repository that contained the most stable versions of his cores, and a jtbin repository that contained the same stable cores, as well as open and closed betas (by closed, I mean for patrons only). Over time, this 2 repository model proved too much of a maintenance challenge, so he decided to do away with the much-outdated ...
2021-12-07 16:26:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe work on the MiSTer Downloader continues. This is a smaller release that mainly contains fixes and minor improvements, but it also expands the "custom database" feature by adding database-scoped default options for database maintainers and database-scoped options for user customization via do...
2021-12-04 19:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post(ESPAÑOL ABAJO)
Hey there, I'm Jose, a.k.a. theypsilon, and today I'd like to tell you about my story with MiSTer, about why I decided to open this space, and about what are my plans for the future.
My journey with MiSTer started in January 2020, thanks to SmokeMonster and his videos on YouTube. Right away after receiving my precious DE10-Nano, I clearly saw that this project was truly special. A meticulously crafted platform with the single purp...
2021-12-01 18:42:55 +0000 UTC View Post